Part 1: The Gesture // Chapter I

THIS IS AN ALTERNATE 3RD QUARTER QUELL

She believes that she is worthless. That her life does not have a sole purpose. But no. 18-year-old Wren Ivory is not contemplating suicide. She is plotting against the Capitol's pleasures, breaking every rule in the book - except stepping off your pedestal before the minute is over. Wren and twenty-three other innocent, adolescent teenagers are reaped, pampered, trained, then sent off into the Arena to play a lovely game their President Snow loves to call, The Hunger Games. And this year, it is special. It's the Third Quarter Quell and it will end as the others have. Devastating and cruel, with a hint of rebellion.